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OPEN STANDARDS AND OPEN SOURCE
DEVELOPMENT AT OASIS
Dr Carol Cosgrove‐Sacks, Senior Advisor on
International Standards Policy, OASIS
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OASIS INTRODUCTION
OASIS Open is a global, not‐for‐profit consortium that
creates market‐driven software standards
Founded in 1993 as SGML Open
Over the years, from SGML to XML to multiple
methods & models (JSON, XML, UML, ASN.1, custom
notations), business processes and policies
Cloud computing
IoT
Smart Cities and Smart Grid
Cybersecurity
Identity
Localization
Our shared areas of interest relate to many
Digital Single Market priority topics
Many open
standards
projects are Web standard (3) FOSS browsers (4)
robustly
supported by
free & open
source
software. Identity standard (5) FOSS toolkits (6)
One open standard (UBL for e‐invoicing)
generated many local profiles, regional
public projects and open source tools. (7)
Standards projects with more rapid, agile
implementations
Open Source projects with more interoperability
and stable interfaces
Greater resource efficiency and, possibly, better
long‐term support
Maintaining opportunities for a multiplicity of both
free and commercial developers: open
development projects let the market operate, and
do not “pick a single winner” prematurely
Footnotes
1. FOSS: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/c3em21d2_en.pdf (UNCTAD);
http://www.netvibes.com/cabinetoffice#Open_Source (UK Action Plan).
2. Open Standards: http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/17‐tbt_e.htm (WTO);
http://www.talkstandards.com/standards‐and‐oss/.
3. HTML: http://www.w3.org/html/.
4. HTML FOSS Browsers: http://www.mozilla.org/en‐US/firefox/new/ (Mozilla);
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ (Amaya).
5. SAML: https://www.oasis‐open.org/committees/security.
6. SAML FOSS Toolkits: http://saml.xml.org/wiki/saml‐open‐source‐implementations.
Footnotes
7. UBL: https://www.oasis‐open.org/committees/ubl (OASIS); http://www.nesubl.eu/ ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OIOXML , http://www.peppol.eu/pilot‐reporting ,
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x‐ind‐disrubl/ ,
http://www.opensourceacademy.eu/index.php?id=59 (guides);
http://openinvoice.org/ubl4j/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeb‐ubl ,
http://xmltools.oio.dk/oioonlinevalidator/ehandel/0p71/Invoice/ ,
http://www.ubl‐italia.org/ubl‐italia/imple/pgcl.asp?p=418,
http://www.simpleubl.com/articles/what‐is‐nes/ (tools).